Gardening

Some people may think that a garden is really old-school and women who care a lot about it are fashioned, a shame for the feminism and boring. Well, not. 

It's the perfect balance between a stressful day with a lot of work, bustle and people. Going back to nature, having silence and nobody around you, being on your own is a peaceful state of mind.

06. August 2014 

16. November 2013 

Preparing for winter-time. 

The first frost came last week over the south. Time to prepare your garden for the winter. Bring in the flowers, cut your copses back and your roses. And conserve whats still left. In our case its the spices. Oregano, rosemary, marjoram, thyme. My mom sent me a packet full of these delicate herbs to Berlin. So I dried them near the window, broke them into little peaces and put them into little jars.

Marjoram from our garden 

Easily to break with your fingers 

the same for oregano 

The only difficulty was the thyme.
The leafs are so small and the branches too,
so I helped myself with a little filter.

You can also make the herbs smaller with a mortar.

Most work I had with the rosemary - my favorite herb.
Rosemary has no leafs but needles like from a fir tree.
So I broke them one by one in little pieces, a lot of work!

Rosemary, Marjoram and Oregano

Lavender is just great!
You can dry it and put it in a vase and it smells fantastic,
 I also love the color
Or you can make little lavender-pillows for your wardrobe.
(Also a great gift-idea)
The best thing about Lavender: It grows like weeds. If you grow
it ones in your garden, you easily have a lot.

You can sew little bags or pillows,
but the faster way to get the great lavender smell in your
wardrobe are those little bags they sell you jewellery in.
Just put the flowers in there. 

One advantage of those jewellery-bags is you can hang them easily. 

or put them in between your clothes. 

07. August 2013 

  

Mums garden is the perfect place to relax
under the big trees is enough room to read in the shadows
and the roses have the best smell ever

summertime is balcony-time!

but like always in life – what is pretty 
needs a lot of time like our garden...
the five apple trees are nearly dying under
 the weight of so many apples
everyday we have to pick them up 
and then we make marmalade, juice, puree, and cakes

Now I want to show you our real garden...

here is were our tomatoes grow

until their big and red and ready to eat them

so that we can cook with them, make tomato-sauce and salads

and here are our raspberries! Our gardens treasure.
 The marmalade we make of them is the very best.

all we need for todays lunch